Podcasting and iPods
- Digital storytelling
- Narrating Events and Reports
- Make-believe interviews
- Interviews with community and family members
- Step-by-Step instructions
- Describe your town or community to the world
- News reports from the classroom or school
- Band, Orchestra, or Chorus broadcasts
- Record lessons
- Record Guest Speakers
Google Earth
- Map characters in a story
- Map locations of signifcant events in history
- Map the journeys of famous explorers
Internet
- NetTrekker: Teaching students and teachers to use the categorized search.
- Google: Teaching students how to use this widely-used resource as a learning tool.
- Wikipedia: Teaching students about the read/write web and how to use this source responsibly.
- Social Bookmarking: Teach students and teachers to share research with each other.
- Second Life: Although this is a "new" site and I have a feeling that I'd have to do some more research on it, Second Life seems like it might have a lot of potential in education.
- e-Books
- Wikis: A great way for students to collaborate on projects both in an out of school
Blogs
- Students should be learning how to find useful blogs on the web
- Students should learn how to subscribe to their favorite blogs using an RSS feed service, such as Bloglines
- 21 Classes is a classroom blogging site that could be used by teachers and students to share and critique work with each other
